Find Your Child’s Condition or Care Need
Explore plain-language information, resources and support for medically complex children.
Conditions by area
Care needs by type
27 guides for families
Featured conditions
Conditions Families Ask About Most
Start with a plain-language guide to your child’s diagnosis and what care at home can look like.
Cerebral Palsy in Children
A lifelong difference in how the brain sends movement signals, affecting posture, balance and muscle tone.
Epilepsy & Seizure Disorders in Children
A tendency toward recurring seizures, which changes how a family plans sleep, safety and every ordinary outing.
Chronic Lung Disease in Children
Ongoing lung difficulties, often following a very early birth, where breathing takes more work than it should.
Complex Medical Needs in Children
Children whose care involves several body systems, multiple specialists and often medical technology at home.
Featured care needs
Care Needs We Support at Home
Each guide explains a kind of care, from airway and feeding to medication and mobility.
Tracheostomy Care
Day-to-day support for a child who breathes through a tracheostomy tube, and for the family caring for them at home.
Ventilator Support
Care for a child whose breathing is supported by a ventilator, whether overnight, for part of the day or continuously.
Enteral Feeding
Nutrition delivered through a feeding tube, following the plan a child's doctor and dietitian have set.
Medication Management
Keeping a child's medicines organized, given on the prescribed schedule, and observed for how they are working.
Mobility & Transfers
Safe, respectful help for a child who needs assistance to move, change position or get from place to place.
Condition guides
All Conditions
Plain-language guides to diagnoses, written for parents.
16 conditions
Neurological & brain
Cerebral Palsy in Children
A lifelong difference in how the brain sends movement signals, affecting posture, balance and muscle tone.
Neurological & brain
Epilepsy & Seizure Disorders in Children
A tendency toward recurring seizures, which changes how a family plans sleep, safety and every ordinary outing.
Neurological & brain
Spina Bifida in Children
A difference in how the spine formed before birth, affecting movement, sensation and bladder and bowel routines.
Neurological & brain
Hydrocephalus in Children
A buildup of fluid in the spaces of the brain, usually managed long term and watched closely at home.
Neurological & brain
Brain Injury in Children
An injury to the brain after a period of typical development, often changing movement, thinking and behavior at once.
Neurological & brain
Spinal Cord Injury in Children
Damage to the spinal cord that interrupts signals between the brain and the body below the level of injury.
Developmental
Developmental Disabilities in Children
A group of lifelong differences in learning, communication and daily living skills that begin in childhood.
Genetic & metabolic
Down Syndrome in Children
A genetic condition caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21, with a wide range of abilities and health needs.
Genetic & metabolic
Muscular Dystrophy in Children
A group of inherited conditions in which muscle strength changes over time, affecting movement and sometimes breathing.
Genetic & metabolic
Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Children
A genetic condition affecting the nerve cells that control muscle movement, often involving breathing and feeding.
Genetic & metabolic
Neuromuscular Disorders in Children
Conditions affecting nerves, muscles or the connection between them, causing weakness that varies widely by diagnosis.
Genetic & metabolic
Genetic Disorders in Children
Conditions caused by differences in genes or chromosomes, ranging from well known syndromes to extremely rare findings.
Genetic & metabolic
Metabolic Disorders in Children
Conditions in which the body processes food or energy differently, making feeding routines and sick days critical.
Respiratory & airway
Chronic Lung Disease in Children
Ongoing lung difficulties, often following a very early birth, where breathing takes more work than it should.
Respiratory & airway
Respiratory Failure in Children
When a child's lungs or breathing muscles cannot sustain breathing alone and ongoing respiratory support is needed.
Complex medical needs
Complex Medical Needs in Children
Children whose care involves several body systems, multiple specialists and often medical technology at home.
Care-need guides
All Care Needs
What day-to-day care can look like at home, need by need.
11 care needs
Breathing & airway
Tracheostomy Care
Day-to-day support for a child who breathes through a tracheostomy tube, and for the family caring for them at home.
Breathing & airway
Ventilator Support
Care for a child whose breathing is supported by a ventilator, whether overnight, for part of the day or continuously.
Breathing & airway
Oxygen Therapy
Support for a child who needs extra oxygen — overnight, during certain activities or throughout the day.
Feeding & nutrition
G-Tube & J-Tube Support
Help for families caring for a child who is fed through a tube placed into the stomach or small intestine.
Feeding & nutrition
Enteral Feeding
Nutrition delivered through a feeding tube, following the plan a child's doctor and dietitian have set.
Feeding & nutrition
Feeding & Swallowing Support
Support for a child who finds eating, drinking or swallowing difficult, tiring or unsafe.
Neurological monitoring
Seizure Monitoring
Attentive care for a child who has seizures, so someone is present, watching and ready to follow their care plan.
Neurological monitoring
Medication Management
Keeping a child's medicines organized, given on the prescribed schedule, and observed for how they are working.
Daily living & mobility
Mobility & Transfers
Safe, respectful help for a child who needs assistance to move, change position or get from place to place.
Daily living & mobility
Personal Care & Daily Living
Hands-on help with bathing, dressing, toileting and the ordinary routines that make up a child's day.
Transition home
NICU to Home Transition
Support for families through the first weeks at home after a long stay in the NICU or hospital.
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